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YouTube Music and Premium now offer student discounts
Streaming starts at $5 per month.
If YouTube Music is going to compete with Spotify and Apple Music on price, it’s going to need discounts for the student set. Thankfully, they’ve just turned up — you can now subscribe to a $5 per month YouTube Music Premium plans as well as a corresponding $7 YouTube Premium plan ($6 if you sign up before January 31st). So long as you’re a full-time student at an accredited US college or university, you can listen or watch to your heart’s content without stretching your budget past the breaking point.
The pricing for Music Premium is on par with what you’d expect from competing services. Really, it’s table stakes at this point. Whether or not YouTube Premium is a deal depends on your priorities. Spotify’s student plan offers Hulu and Showtime for the same $5 per month as Music Premium, but it also doesn’t curb ads on YouTube. If you’re more interested in watching your favorite video blogger than The Handmaid’s Tale, YouTube Premium might be the better deal.
Article via EnGadget
YouTube is now streaming actual movies you can watch for free
YouTube has had free “movies” for years, most of them ripped from somebody’s DVD copy with a bizarrely cropped video and poorly synced audio (and they even used to be chopped up into 10-minute chunks), but lately the video site has been adding actual legal content that users can buy in order to make it more competitive with services like Amazon Prime. Now, YouTube has reached the next, inevitable stage of any non-Amazon/Netflix/Hulu streaming service: free movies!
Actually, the exclamation point there isn’t really warranted, as the majority of the free movies here aren’t, you know, good. But hey, a free movie is better than a movie you have to pay for (sometimes). The catch, other than some of the movies being bad, is that these free movies are ad-supported, so it’s just like watching an on-demand movie off of a cable box. Deadline notes that this comes after Roku added free, ad-supported movies on its Roku Channel and Walmart’s Vudu service got some free movies of its own. Also, while Deadline doesn’t know exactly how the monetization here works, YouTube says it will eventually be adding a way for advertisers to sponsor individual movies and offer special “screenings.”
But we’ve stalled long enough, and now it’s time to talk about the actual movies you can watch right now. You’ll actually have to go to this link to watch them, but what’s one extra click when it means you can watch Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London for free? Or how about Kevin James in Zookeeper? Or the first Agent Cody Banks? Or Legally Blonde, which is actually a good one? Or Rocky? Or Throw Momma From The Train? Or The Terminator? Or something called Mystery Road? Or a Western starring Josh Peck from Drake And Josh? Or a movie called The Great Buck Howard that has so many famous people in it that it must be good?
Article via AVClub
The Paul Brothers Being Racist, #JustAnotherSunday :)
The Paul Bros are the gift from Ohio that keeps giving (us content to talk about). The brothers are no strangers to controversy, the first wave of which began with the younger brother, Jake Paul (former Disney channel star), facing criticism for being a public nuisance in his neighborhood and allegedly abusing his live in employees (especially his on again off again girlfriend) part of Team10.
Now footage has been released to TMZ in which Jake is dropping N-bombs during a freestyle rap during Coachella last year. Jake freestyled over Rae Sremmurd‘s “Throw Sum Mo” beat, and early in the video, around 7 seconds, he raps something about … “little ass n***as.”
Later he says, “I whip it like my n***a Richie Vetter, he make the pu**y so wet it gets wetter.”
“A source connected to Jake tells us the 20-year-old isn’t racist” (TMZ). TMZ’s Jake source says the actor and YouTube sensation has matured a lot since this video was shot 8 months ago. Okay.
Jake Paul was known to be the annoying younger brother, and Logan Paul was assumed to be older, more mature, with more sense in the head. Unfortunately, that is not the case as these brothers are two branches off the same tree.
Logan received Youtube wide backlash where he proceeded to film in the Aokigahara forest (also known as the Suicide Forest, where many venture into to commit suicide). While in the Forest, Paul wore a hideous green hat, that provided an offensive contrast to the seriousness of the Forest’s nature. This hat may also be representative of his childish mindset and how he is so far removed from reality, especially so when he filmed someone who committed suicide. Logan posted the video to Youtube and set the body as a Youtube thumbnail.
After the backlash Logan posted an apology to Twitter, a narcissistic non-apology no less.
After even more backlash Logan posted a more somber apology video to Youtube, which went #1 on the trending page, watch that here.
Logan eventually concluded that his social media fame has led him to blur the line between the Internet and the real world, and so he will be taking a break from the Internet. We hope that he will take his brother with him, and they both come back with more wholesome content.
It should be noted that Logan Paul has a history of racism, especially against Asian people, watch Keren Joy’s video here.
Read more via: http://www.tmz.com/2018/01/05/jake-paul-freestyle-raps-n-word/
Boy, 8, Drives His 4-Year-Old Sister to McDonald’s After Watching YouTube Instructional Videos
An 8-year-old Ohio boy drove the family van to McDonald’s, with his 4-year-old sister riding shotgun, because they really wanted some cheeseburgers, police said.
The child maintained the speed limit and executed a perfect left turn into the drive-thru lane, where he came to a stop at the window and placed his order.
“It was remarkable,” East Palestine Police Officer Jacob Koehler told InsideEdition.com Wednesday. “He got him and his sister to McDonald’s without hitting anything or running any red lights.”
The boy took money from his piggy bank to finance the fast-food adventure, and lifted the vehicle’s keys after his father went to bed early and his mother nodded off on the couch.
Police received two calls from pedestrians about a little boy driving a big van, Koehler said. The officer arrived at the McDonald’s at about 8 p.m. Sunday, just as the boy pulled up to the drive-thru window.
“He said he and his sister looked up how to drive on YouTube,” Koehler said. “They waited until mom fell asleep and grabbed her keys.”
They drove a mile to Mickey D’s, stopping at four intersections along the way. They’d already had dinner, but the boy told police “me and my sister really wanted a cheeseburger,” Koehler recounted.
The boy was able to reach the pedals by standing up while driving. “This was a one-ton work van. This thing was huge,” the officer said.
A customer at the restaurant recognized the children and called their grandparents. Police called the parents.
They all hurried to the restaurant.
How did they react?
“I’m not sure there are any words to accurately describe their reactions,” Koehler said.
Employees thought it was a prank when the kids pulled up. “They thought the parents were in the back and it was a joke,” the officer said.
The little boy certainly didn’t think it was funny when the cops showed up. He burst into tears when he grasped how badly he had messed up, Koehler said.
“He started crying when he realized he’d done something wrong,” Koehler said.
But he didn’t get into any trouble with the law, as no charges were filed over the incident.
“I was expecting to get call after call about mailboxes being knocked over, stupid stuff like that,” Koehler said. “But he didn’t hit a single thing.”
via: https://www.yahoo.com/news/boy-8-drives-4-old-192400950.html
Arkansas Mother of 4 Builds Home for Family From Scratch Using YouTube Tutorials
With two bad marriages behind her and debt that came with them, Cara Brookins, an Arkansas mother of four, needed a place to stay for her and her four kids.
But Brookins, who writes young adult novels for a living, didn’t have the money to hire builders. So she built one by herself — using YouTube tutorials.
“Things can get a little expensive when you are escaping an abusive relationship and have four children,” Brookins explained.
Brookins’ initial intention was to buy a home. But she found they were either too expensive or just too small. Then she realized that YouTube is a great tool for how-to’s.
So after careful research, Brookins brought an acre of land in Bryant, Arkansas, a suburb of Little Rock, and began building.
She started in 2008, watching videos in the evening, making a list of the tools she’d need. She tallied the cost of supplies for her dream home: $130,000.
So she sold a small property she owned.
Her children, Hope, Drew and Jada and Roman — ages 17 to 2 at the time — helped along the way.
“My oldest son, Drew, helped me draw the blueprint to get approved by the city,” Brookins said.
Brookins and her children worked on the house for nine months. Jada would haul water from the neighbor’s pond to make a mix to help lay the foundation. Drew helped move lumber. Hope would cook for everyone.
“The entire process brought our family closer together and we learned that nothing is impossible. We found new hope,” said Brookins.
But all the YouTube learning can’t fill all the holes in one’s knowledge. So Brookins enlisted the help of a friendly firefighter who had past building experience. She would pay him $25 an hour, when she could afford it, to help her with some of the tasks.
Finally, on March 31, 2009, the family moved into its 3,500-square-foot house. Brookins called it Inkwell Manor because, she said, she wanted a place where she could write and one that reflected her passion for books and writing.
The house has five bedrooms and a library.
The experience is now the subject of a book, “Rise: How a House Built a Family,” which comes out January 24. Brookins said she hopes the book inspires others to never think small.
“I never intended to write a book. I was ashamed. But I think it is important to shift your perspective on any negative situation and do something big,” she said.
“Never think of your situation as a solo journey,” she added. “You can heal and grow together with your family.”
via: http://ktla.com/2017/01/13/arkansas-mother-of-4-builds-home-for-family-from-scratch-using-youtube-tutorials/
Cartoon Hangover
Anybody who’s an Anime ( Anime a style of Japanese film and television animation, typically aimed at adults as well as children) (NO NOT ALL ANIME IS PORN) fend like me and my fellow anime watcher Devin Brown or not needs to checkout and get ya fill of cartoons 24/7 365 (NO I’m NOT talking about Cartoon Network) I’m talking about a YouTube channel called Cartoon Hangover. When I first heard about this YouTube channel I was in one of my many Anime FaceBook groups scrolling through and found a video post a cartoon called Bee and Puppycat the name alone drew me in when clicked the link I was definitely not disappointed.
Here’s the synopsis
Bee is a cheerful young woman in her twenties who is habitually fired from menial, low-paying jobs. On her way home ) a failed job opportunity, PuppyCat, a strange, mysterious creature falls from the sky . She takes him in and when he sees that she is broke and unemployed, PuppyCat teleports himself and Bee to an alternate dimension where they are given a job by TempBot, a gigantic, intelligent television screen. Despite the dangers that this line of temporary jobs would pose, Bee finds that she has a talent for the work and that it pays well enough for her to disregard the dangers. An ongoing plot element of the series is PuppyCat’s past, which is shrouded in mystery. There are hints that he may be a space outlaw who was transformed into a monster by the Space King, who was angry over the pirate’s romance with his daughter. Another ongoing plot element is Bee’s romantic feelings for her friend Deckard, a talented chef who seems to harbor a crush on Bee but finds that this complicates his decision to pursue a cooking career.
So after looking at this 6min pilot of pure delight I was very impressed by the storyline and plot and it’s adult themed show Looking through Cartoon Hangovers YT channel they not only had Bee and Puppycat Webisodes they had other well written;thought out cartoon webseries cartoons that ( child; family friendly) funny as hell! Bee and Puppycat has become soo popular until it’s become brand, you can see Bee and Puppycat Cosplayers (the practice of dressing up as a character from a movie, book, or video game, especially one from the Japanese genres of manga and anime or popular cartoons) merchandise all over the web!
Cartoon Hangover YT Channel was created by Frederator Studios television channel these folks had the smart idea to have audience participation to pitch their own cartoon that MAY be greenlite and your show aired on Cartoon Hangover I think this is a SWEET IDEA if you are looking to write and produce your own animated short that could possibly lead to bigger opportunities. I LOVE this YT Channel I love it so much until I think I need REHAB but I ain’t goin’ cause I got a hangover for cartoon hangover! Since I love Bee and Puppycat sooo much click the link below to see what all the hype is about! FYI DON’T EVER CALL ANIME A CARTOON! LOL